The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . )ansion {Jig. ) very few are remaining, whichhave somewhat the appearanceof a broken calyx (c). Threemonths elapse froni the first ap-pearance of the bud to the full exj)ansion of the flower. Thefemah; flowt-r diflors little in appearance from the male, far-ther than in being without the anthers {c) of the. latter. The. Blumes Flora Javce. 709 flower, fully blown, was discovered in a jungle, growing closeto the ground under the bushes, with a swarm of flies hoveringover the nectary, and apparently laying their eggs in
The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . )ansion {Jig. ) very few are remaining, whichhave somewhat the appearanceof a broken calyx (c). Threemonths elapse froni the first ap-pearance of the bud to the full exj)ansion of the flower. Thefemah; flowt-r diflors little in appearance from the male, far-ther than in being without the anthers {c) of the. latter. The. Blumes Flora Javce. 709 flower, fully blown, was discovered in a jungle, growing closeto the ground under the bushes, with a swarm of flies hoveringover the nectary, and apparently laying their eggs in itssubstance. Before noticing Raffles/a Patma Blume, we should remarkthat Dr. Blume, in 1825, founded an order to receive this andallied plants, and devised for it the name Rhizantheae; fromrkize, a root, and ant/ios, a flower; in expression of the remark-able habit in their vegetation of their being flowers parasiticallysustained on the roots of other plants. As M. Brongniarthad, in 1824-, a year previous, applied the term Cytineae toplants of the same kind, Dr. Blumes name is superseded bythe priority ofM. Brongniarts. Dr. Blume, however, in hiswork before us, published in 1828, retains his own name ofRhizantheae, and under it developes, in considerable detail, itscharacters, before he proceeds to the contradistinction, de-scription, and illustration of the plants, which, in this work
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